Emma McIntyre
b. 1990, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
Lives and works in Los Angeles
Emma McIntyre
Dance the orange, 2024
oil and oil pastel on linen
16 1/8 x 20 1/8 inches (410 x 510 mm)
Emma McIntyre graduated with a BVA (Painting) from AUT University in 2011, and an MFA from University of Auckland's Elam School of Fine Arts in 2016. In 2019 she was awarded a Fulbright General Graduate award to study an MFA at ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, that she completed in 2021. Emma is represented by Coastal Signs, David Zwirner, Chateau Shatto, Los Angeles, and Air de Paris, Paris.
Emma McIntyre
Alchemists, 2024
installation view, Pond Society Shanghai
Emma McIntyre
Madonna of the meadow, 2024
Oil, oil stick, and conte crayon on linen
98 x 70 inches (248.9 x 177.8 cm)
Emma McIntyre
It crackles, it cuts, 2024
Oil and conte crayon on linen
102 x 142 inches (259.1 x 360.7 cm)
Emma McIntyre
Among my swan, 2025
installation view, David Zwiner Hong Kong
News
- Emma McIntyre featured in New York Times on Frieze New York
- Emma McIntyre has a solo presentation at Frieze New York with Chateau Shatto, Los Angeles
- Emma McIntyre is now represented by Chateau Shatto, Los Angeles
- Emma McIntyre awarded a Fulbright Graduate Award (2019)
Emma McIntyre
Demi-paradise, 2024
oil on canvas
102 x 152 inches / 2600 x 3860 mm
installation view: Objects or vapours, Coastal Signs @ 40 Anzac Ave, Auckland
Emma McIntyre
Demi-paradise (detail), 2024
oil on canvas
102 x 152 inches / 2600 x 3860 mm
Emma McIntyre
Sweetly gently, 2024
oil on canvas
12 x 14 inches / 305 x 360 mm
installation view: Objects or vapours, Coastal Signs @ 40 Anzac Ave, Auckland
Recent Solo Exhibitions
- Among my swan, David Zwirner, Hong Kong, (2025)
- O b j e c t s o r V a p o u r s , C o a s t a l S i g n s , T ā m a k i M a k a u r a u A u c k l a n d ( 2 0 2 4 )
- An Echo, a stain, David Zwirner, New York (2023)
- Pearl Diver, Chateau Shatto, Los Angeles (2023)
- M a d o n n a o f t h e P o m e g r a n a t e , C o a s t a l S i g n s , T ā m a k i M a k a u r a u A u c k l a n d ( 2 0 2 2 )
- Up bubbles her amorous breath, Air de Paris, Paris (2022)
- Pinkisms Art Center College of Design, Pasadena (2021)
- Pour plenty on the worlds, Chris Sharp Gallery, Los Angeles (2021)
- Heat, Mossman Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington (2020)
- The Blue of It at Hopkinson Mossman, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland (2019)
- Rose on Red, Hopkinson Mossman, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington (2018)
- Pink Square Sways, Hopkinson Mossman, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland (2017)
Emma McIntyre
An Echo, a stain, (2023)
Installation view: David Zwirner, New York
Emma McIntyre
Antipodean fragments, 2023
Oil and diamond dust on linen
305 x 381 mm
Emma McIntyre
Pearl Diver, 2022
Installation view: Chatteau Shatto, Los Angeles
Readings
- Richard Hawkins, Getting Up Close and Personal with Painters Emma McIntyre and Richard Hawkins, Interview Magazine, 2025
- Jonathan Griffin, Emma McIntyre Leads You Part of the Way There, Ocula, 2025
- Sophia Cohen, Sophia Cohen and Emma McIntyre on What Makes a Good Artist-Dealer Relationship, Cultured Mag, 2025
- Maddie Klett, A sometimes unresolved threading, Flaunt, 2023
- Olivia Parkes, Emma McIntyre: 'Painting is its own kind of magic', Art Basel, October 2023
- Evangeline Riddiford Graham, Big Crafty Angels in the Garden, Art News, September 2023
- Megan MacNaughton, Settling Troubled Waters with Emma McIntyre, Contemporary HUM, February 2022
- Suzanne Hudson, Emma McIntyre, Artforum, May 2021
- Andrew Berardini, Slippery Dance Floors and Somatic Promiscuities, Artnow, April 2021
- Cat Kron, Emma McIntyre 'Pour plenty onto the worlds', Flash Art, March 2021
- Fanny Singer, Art Histories Collide in Emma McIntyre's Sublime Abstractions, Frieze, February 2021
- Chloe Lane, Making Art in the time of COVID-19: Amy Howden-Chapman and Emma McIntyre in the United States, Contemporary HUM, May 2020
- Nicholas Smith, A Couple of Days or a Week, September 2020
- Lucinda Bennet, Scratched Flowers, June 2019
Emma McIntyre
Radiant-shaking, 2022
Oil and copper on canvas
260 x 220 mm
Emma McIntyre
Rain bright madness, 2022
oil on linen
940 x 780 mm
Emma McIntyre
The blush, 2022
oil and iron oxide on linen
305 x 356 mm
Emma McIntyre
Up Bubbles Her Amorous Breath, 2021
installation view: Air de Paris, Paris
Emma McIntyre
Spirits that lend strength, 2021
oil, oil stick on linen, iron oxide and graphite
305 x 279 mm
Recent Group Exhibitions
- Alchemists, Pond Society, Shanghai (2024)
- L'Almanach 23, Le Consortium, Dijon (2023)
- Oceans of Time, Chateau Shatto, Los Angeles (2022)
- Ensemble at Chateau Shatto (2021)
- Crossings, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington (2021)
- Memory Disco, Hopkinson Mossman, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington (2019)
- Auckland Art Fair, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland (2018)
- A Trip to the Beach, Play_station, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington (2017)
Emma McIntyre
Badlands, 2021
oil, oil stick and pastel on linen
2000 x 2400mm
Emma McIntyre
Tulle on smoke, 2021
oil, oil stick and acrylic on linen
280 x 310mm
Emma McIntyre
Pinkisms, 2021
installation view, Art Centre, Los Angeles
Emma McIntyre
If there is light that has weight, 2021,
oil and oil stick on linen
1830 × 1630 mm
Emma McIntyre
The problem of vivacity, 2020
oil, oil stick and acrylic on linen
1422 x 1626mm
Emma McIntyre
Ensemble, 2021
installation view: Château Shatto, Los Angeles
Emma McIntyre
Swamp Stuff, 2021
oil, oil stick and pastel on linen
457 x 535 mm
Emma McIntyre
Double Session, 2020
oil and flashe on linen
1220 x 1670mm